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article10780693Wed, 7 Dec 2016 19:05:56 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Programs-protests-to-surround-Spencer-speech-10695705.php
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Confrontations between a small group of Spencer supporters and protesters clustered in intense debate near the Memorial Student Center, where the white nationalist was speaking to a crowd that included students and several members of the state and national media. ]]>
Mon, 5 Dec 2016 21:09:22 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/Financial-markets-shaken-by-strong-Trump-showing-10602750.php
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Financial markets were taking the news of Donald Trumps strong showing in key swing states poorly late Tuesday evening. ]]>
Wed, 9 Nov 2016 03:17:16 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/houston/article/Voters-in-a-sour-mood-cast-votes-in-Harris-10602428.php
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From dawn's early light to the clinging darkness of a cool and humid Tuesday evening, voters across Harris County echoed the sentiments of citizens throughout the nation, expressing dismay over the choices presented and resignation tinged with a bit of hope that the one they made might restore a sense of purpose to a divided nation. Wilson mentioned her conservative west Texas roots and her history of voting Republican. Hillary Clinton's campaign believes its chances will be buoyed by a record Latino turnout, suggested by early voting in a number of states. At the Primera Iglesia Bautista De Pasadena, where people streamed in and out of the basketball gym turned polling place, 58-year-old Jose Guadalupe looked exactly like what she had in mind. "Thank God this will be over today," said Guadalupe, a Mexican immigrant and Pasadena resident, after walking past scores of campaign signs from mostly down-ballot Democratic candidates rising from a small patch of grass in front of the church. College student Danny Barrera Polomino, 19, prepared to cast his ballot at a pubic library in Humble - the first member of his family to ever participate in a U.S. election. ]]>
Wed, 9 Nov 2016 02:02:16 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Race-Birther-issue-criminal-justice-issues-9290170.php
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Hillary Clinton called for revision to the criminal justice system, which she said has been too harsh on minorities, and for an examination of implicit bias which she claims infects everyone. Trump defended his longstanding insistence that President Obama might not be an American citizen, which he recently dropped. Trump said what African-American and Hispanic communities need is more law and order because they are being "decimated" by crime. ]]>
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 03:32:39 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/politics/us/article/Clinton-blasts-Trump-on-race-9290165.php
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Race relations and racial healing occupied a portion of the debate, and predictably turned to questions of crime and President Obama's birth certificate. ]]>
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 03:21:28 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/local/history/medical-science/article/Despite-hurdles-space-shuttle-was-key-to-a-9142524.php
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Not long after he had put his Nazi past behind him and turned his thoughts to more peaceful pursuits, rocket engineer Wernher von Braun laid out a plan for the future of the American space program, sensible enough for any politician and simple enough to write on a napkin. [...] put a real person up there to prove that we could, and that he can remain alive. [...] no one imagined then that von Braun's functional "ferry," the modest plane-like vehicle that would run back and forth to space, would end up as a 30-year endeavor that would summarize human space exploration for a generation and consume more than $200 billion of the agency's budget. The sum of human space knowledge may have been more enriched by the robotic probes assembled in California and sent throughout the solar system, but the key human element bore a familiar Texas twang, just as in the Apollo days. By most any measure the iconic Space Shuttle was an impressive achievement, instilling pride as it blasted into blue skies with a booming orange tail and amazement when its lifting body design allowed it to glide back to a runway for a perfect soft landing. The Challenger accident, which occurred on a crisp winter morning in 1986, stunned a nation that had come to regard shuttle flights as routine - so routine that television networks no longer carried live broadcasts of the launches, so routine that one of its crew members was not a scientist or military aviator but a teacher, whose presence was to be used to promote human space flight as a worthy endeavor that would teach us much in coming years. [...] when Hubble turned out to have a problem with its optics, the shuttle took up new parts and a crew trained to install them, saving American astronomy's greatest achievement. Political reality then stepped in, with President Richard Nixon deciding to go with what he saw as the least ambitious and expensive of his options, other than calling a halt to the human side of the space program. Former late congressman and cabinet member Les Aspin, often a critic of NASA's spending habits and vision, said the shuttle's original role as a piece of a large scheme was lost as its supporters wanted to give it something to do beyond send out robotic probes. NASA never got the funding it needed to build the fully reusable, two-stage vehicle that was always desired, so designers scaled back. ]]>
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:42:07 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Trump-asks-crowd-to-imagine-if-somone-had-shot-8310454.php
article8310454Sat, 18 Jun 2016 03:17:00 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/HISD-releases-list-of-proposed-school-name-changes-7408763.php
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The renaming of seven Houston ISD schools whose current namesakes had ties to the Confederacy could be completed Thursday. ]]>
Sat, 7 May 2016 01:50:00 UThttp://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/houston-weather/article/Deadly-storms-hit-Houston-causing-widespread-7256284.php
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Storms that had been anticipated for two days finally descended with a fury Sunday night. ]]>
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:52:00 UT